Gutter bracket



Jail} 1926. W. A. B. TQPP ,GUTTER BRACKET Filed Feb. 25, 1923 Y Patented Jan. 19, 1926.

' UNITED STATES 1,570,102 PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ALBERT BETHRIDGE TQPP, OF ANNANDALE, NEAR SIDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

GUTT-EB BRACKET.

Application filed February 23, 1923. Serial No. 620,774.

I '0 all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALBERT BETHRIDGE Torr, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at No. 129 Nelson Street, Annandale, near Sydney, in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia, have invented new and useful Gutter Brackets, :of which the following is :a specification.

This invention has been specially devised in order to provide an improved gutter bracket of simple, cheap, strong and effective construction whereby the cost of manufacture and transit is reduced, the erection of gutter ,is facilitated and expedited and the guttering is firmly secured and supported.

An improved gutter bracket according to this invention is constructed of a strip of light and preferablynon-corrodible sheet metal such as galvanized iron reinforced at each longitudinal edge by a turn or curl of the edge forming an edge bead and leaving when desired a fiat tongue of the metal projecting beyond the beaded edges at either or each end of the bracket for bending inwardly and down to engage and hold the bead and the back of the gutter, the back tongue having a subsidiary tongue out therein when desired so that the main tongue may be usedas an additional fastening of the bracket to the building and the subsidiary tongue be bent inwardly and downward to engage and hold the back of the gutter; and the front tongue may be used to hingedly secure to the bracket a suitably shaped looped hook -'or clip adapted to be swung inwardly to engage and hold the bead of the gutter when same has been placed in thebracket. The edge bead may be formed on the outer or inner face of the strip but preferably on the outer face and may be hollow or may have gripped therein as an additional reinforcement a Wire either just the full "length of the beads'or if desired with ends projecting either separately or in the form of a loop at either or at both the back and front ends of the bracket for use as clips by turning them down upon the gutter in the bracket or as means for additional fastening of the bracket to the building or staying and supporting the bracket and the gutter therein. In place of the full length wire in said bead a section of reinforcing wire is gripped therein at sharp bends or vcurves in the configuration of thebracket, or in placeof Wire within the bead aisection of additional metal strip is gripped upon the face of the bracket under .or within the beaded edges at the beforementioned positions as additional reinforcement.

And in :order that the invention and the modified applications of same may be readily understood the same will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, showing the engagement positions of the parts in dotted lines, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bracket with enclosed reinforcing Wire terminating with the beads and with back and front tongues,

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the bracket,

Figure 3 is a transverse section of the bracket,

Figure 4 is a side elevation of a bracket with enclosed reinforcing wire projecting at the front and with a back tongue,

Figure 5 is a similar view of the same bracket configured to suit a different shape of gutter,

Figure '6 is a front elevation of the bracket,

Figure 7 is a similar View of a bracket with reinforcing wire projecting in the form of a loop at both'back and front ends and with back tongue,

Figure 8 is a similar View of -a similar bracket with the addition of a front tongue,

the front andback loops constructed fors'ecuring to the building,

Figure 9 is a front elevation of the bracket,

Figure 10 is a side elevation of a bracket with hinged hooked loop in front and a back tongue,

Figures 11 and 12 are respectively front and transverse sectional elevations of a bracket with sectional strip reinforcement.

Figure 13 is a perspective of a bracket as in Figure 1 affixed in position,

Figure 14 is a perspective of the gutter secured in the bracket,

Fi re 15 is a perspective of a bracket as in Figure 8 aflixed in position and a gutter secured therein,

Figure 16 is a perspective of a bracket as in Figure 1 with subsidiary back tongue and affixed in position and a gutter secured therein,

Figure 17 is a side elevation of a bracket for a half round gutter,

Figure 18 is a perspective of the same applied to a gutter, and

Figure 19 is a back elevation of the bracket around gutter.

The bracket is constructed of a strip of metal 21 cut so that a tongue 22 will be formed at the back and also when required a tongue 23 at the front and its longitudinal edges are curled under to form reinforcing heads 2% and it is then bent to the required configuration to suit the sectional shape of the gutter it is to support. The beads may be hollow or may have a reinforcing wire 25 gripped therein at sharp bends such as 26 or at curves such as 27 (Figure 5) or the reinforcing wire 25 may be the full length of the bead 2 1 as in Figure 1 or may project at the front in the form of a loop 28 as in Figure 4 and also at the back in the form of a loop 29 as in Figures 7 and 8.

Instead of the enclosed reinforcing wire 25 the bracket may be reinforced at selected parts such as 26 and 27 by an additional strip 30 upon the face of the bracket and gripped between same and the beads 24: (Figures 11 and 12).

The back tongue 22 may have a subsid iary tongue 31 formed therein by cutting three sides as in Figure 16 so that when the main tongue 22 is used as an additional affixture of the bracket to the building the subsidiary tongue may be bent forward and down over the back 32 of the gutter.

When desired the front tongue 23 may be turned back and secured upon itself or the strip 21 around a looped hook 33 adapted to be swung in and over the head 34 of the gutter to secure the same.

The various modified constructions of the bracket may be used as will be well understood from the drawings.

The bracket has usual orifices through the back by which it is secured to the building the extended back tongue 22 as in Fig ure 14 or the lenghtened back loop 29 and front loop 28 as in Figures 8 and strengthening the afl'ixing of the bracket to the building and supporting and staying the bracket and the gutter therein.

With the bracket for a half round gutter and as illustrated in Figures 17 18 and 19 the back tongue 22 is secured to the building and one of the rear projecting ends of the reinforcing wires 25 is bent down upon the back edge of the gutter and the other may be bent at right angles and transversely to form a hook 39 which is serviceable to hold the front loop 28 down while it is being secured to the building. The front tongue 23 is shortened and fits up into the outward curl forming the front bead 3a of the gutter.

1. A gutter bracket comprising a strip of light sheet metal bent to correspond to the sectional configuration of the gutter which it is to support, marginal reinforcing beads formed therewith, a wire extending through said beads, the medial portion of said wire extending from the forward end of the bracket and adapted to extend over the gutter supported thereby, and the extremities of said wire projecting from the rear end of the bracket.

2. Jr gutter bracket comprising astrip of light sheet metal bent to correspond to the sectional configuration of the gutter which it is to support, reinforcing beads formed at the opposite edges thereof, wires extending through said beads, means for anchoring the opposite ends of said wire, and tongues formed with the opposite ends of said bracket for engagement with the gutter.

3. 1i gutte -r bracket comprising a strip of light sheet metal bent to correspond to the sectional configuration of the gutter which it is tosupport, marginal edges of said strip being bent thereupon to form reinforcing heads, a wire within each of said beads and terminating with the ends thereof and gutter retaining means extending from the opposite ends of said strip.

4. A gutter bracket comprising a strip of light sheet metal bent to correspond to the sectional configuration of the gutter which it is to support, marginal edges of said strip being bent thereupon to form reinforcing heads, a wire extending through said beads, the medial portion of said wire extending from the forward end of said strip, and the extremities of said wire extending from the rearward end of said strip, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Dated this fifteenth day of January, one

thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

WILLIAM ALBERT BETHRKDGE TOPP. 

